Turkey prime minister demands Twitter pay taxes

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Twitter Inc. a "tax evader" and demanded it begin paying, showing that while he might not have been able to make a blockade of the social network stick, his stance toward it is still hostile.

According to Reuters, Erdogan wants the company to pay taxes on the $35 million of advertising revenue the company makes in the country. Erdogan blocked access to the micro-blogging site last month after it was used to spread information that appeared to implicate Erdogan and his family in corruption. A Turkish court has since lifted the ban against Twitter, but a ban against Google's YouTube remains.

Colin Crowell, Twitter’s vice president of global public policy, is in Turkey meeting with the head of the country’s Information and Communications Technologies Authority to ease tensions.